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SAS is a leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Formed in 1976, SAS develops and markets software systems that allow companies to gather, store, access and analyze corporate data to aid in decision-making. The firm has customers at more than 55,000 sites, which span business, government and higher education.

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This week sees the hosting of Adobe’s annual summit (disclosure, Adobe is covering my travel and expenses to attend the event). While it will be interesting from the perspective of looking at a vendor that has transformed itself to be a credible cloud player, it will also be interesting because a battle is looming between the various companies read »

SanDisk announced a new type of product for the enterprise storage market called InfiniFlash. According to the SanDisk announcement this product can result in a storage system with a raw system hardware storage cost of less than $1/GB without in-line deduplication and compression. With deduplication and compression the company says that they can read »

News today from enterprise file sharing and synchronization (EFSS) vendor Egnyte that they are introducing some analytics capabilities into their platform that will be integrated into the core file sharing functionality. In a marketplace awash with well over a hundred competitors in the EFSS space, any point of differentiation is positive and read »

I spend a lot of my time this year putting together the agenda for our annual Forbes Healthcare Summit, which will be held this year on December 3 and 4. It’s an invite-only event where we gather some of the top minds in health care. This year will feature patients, entrepreneurs, and top researchers who are all changing the way we care for the read »

Had a bad day at the office or been under the thumb from a demanding boss? Well, you’re probably not alone there. But as I reflected on this following Employee Appreciation Day in the US earlier this month on 6 March – a national holiday that recognizes the value that employees bring to the workplace – I pondered if better practices in this read »

The thrill of bidding and the thump of the gavel that auctions provide don’t necessarily have to be experienced in person—the world learned that from . But Berlin-based Auctionata, which offers those experiences via live webcast, are reinforcing that truth.

The company just announced a €42 million C round of funding (that’s about $45 read »

It seems reasonable to feel like women aren’t getting nearly their due when reports show that only about a quarter of computing jobs are held by women today. Even worse, that’s down from a year ago, when it was more than a third. And several media sources reported heavy disappointment when the jury voted in favor of Kleiner Perkins in Ellen read »

I’m in Europe this week and if there’s anything that will get your brain thinking about customer service it’s travel. From the experience of 12 hours of flying to the AirBNB we arrived in once settled in Prague to the many cafes we frequented, there’s a lot to be curious about. The big question I think about is what makes some people so good at read »

Many fear the creation of monopolies and oligopolies as the cable sector consolidates, but the deal-making frenzy may actually benefit consumers, similar to a frenzy of M&A activity in the wireless sector between 2012 and 2014. read »

Judging by the official unemployment rate, the American economy is getting rapidly back on track. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in February 2015, meaning about 8.7 million people were officially unemployed. That rate has fallen dramatically from 10 percent immediately following the financial crisis and is now nearly on par with read »

With bold tax policies we could avoid “taxing” poor and middle-income individuals by cutting off vital programs, and we could shift the burden of two decades of unfunded wars and other reckless decisions from future generations to those who have benefited the most from our choices. read »